Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Still it took another six month or so, well into 2017, for Oculus to solidify support for three and four Sensor configurations, offering 360-degree and room-scale tracking to early adopters. Oculus Rift + Touch Price Cuts in 2017. Former Friends – Samsung. Samsung was perhaps Oculus’ first major ally. Launch – $800.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Original investors included Comcast Ventures, HTC and Samsung, but now join Horizons Ventures, Twentieth Century Fox, Evolution Media Partners (backed by TPG and CAA), China’s Shanghai Media Group, Youku Global Media Fund and LDV Partners. SEE ALSO Comcast, Samsung, and HTC Join $6 Million Investment in VR Animation Studio 'Baobab'.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Minecraft (2017) : Little Skippy will do and learn anything to play Minecraft in VR. Mekorama VR (2017) : A quiet puzzler for Aunt Gracie, Mekorama VR tasks you with guiding a wibbly little robot pal through a series of 3D puzzles – of course with ever-increasing difficulty. 2017) : Somebody in your family loves fishing.

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Road to VR

APRIL 3, 2017

Livestreamed 360 video was introduced on selected pages last year, but now any individual, group or ‘page’ can start broadcasting in seconds.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

You will also be able to stream your virtual experiences in the Samsung Gear VR to Facebook Live before the end of this year, so stay tuned for more information on that angle. ObEN is one of 33 companies in the HTC VICE X accelerator program – keep an eye out for their product launch in 2017. Also… is Facebook making a phone ?

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VRScout

DECEMBER 27, 2016

In 2016 they teamed up with Samsung to simulate an in-game basketball experience for the Rio Olympics. Two Bit’s Jake Sally taking someone through the Samsung Olympic experience. Their most well-known tech was built in 2015 when they set a goal to provide concurrent experiences for large groups of people.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

Harmonix , the studio that popularized the rhythm-accessory video with Guitar Hero and now continues the tradition with Rock Band , are today announcing a new music-based gaming experience for the Samsung Gear VR. SingSpace was a surprise addition to the demo room of the Oculus Connect 3 virtual reality convention in San Jose.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

There are so periods during the evolution of a tech with a certain group of leaders, who change over time. In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2018

The original Vive will continue to ship with a two month trial of Viveport Subscription and a free copy of Fallout 4 VR (2017). Stradling Segments. Image courtesy HTC. With the Vive Pro, HTC seems to be trying to please both enterprise/commercial customers and its core audience of (mostly) gaming-focused VR enthusiasts. Image courtesy HTC.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

XREAL: Captial Expansion, Following Shipment Success The news comes after XREAL claimed to have shipped roughly 350,000 pairs of AR glasses since the company’s 2017 inception. BMW Group, Nio, Quintar, and Forma Vision as part of its partner spotlight. XREAL highlighted collaborations with Qualcomm Technologies Inc.,

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JANUARY 25, 2017

MIT is partnering up with Bayview Labs and early stage VC firm the Seraph Group to launch a new accelerator dedicated to “Playful Technologies” such as VR and AR. It will also have input from the VR@MIT group, a student organization on campus dedicated to fostering VR/AR entrepreneurship at the institution.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Just a few weeks ago, major forces collaborating on the WebVR Spec gathered in San Jose, CA for the W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality , a two-day conference where the likes of Mozilla, Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Oculus, The Khronos Group, and many more hashed out the latest developments and directions for the WebVR ecosystem.

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Haptical

AUGUST 31, 2019

In a new trial by Brennan Spiegel of Cedars-Sinai Health System and colleagues, researchers randomized 120 people who were inpatients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles between November 2016 and July 2017. 61 people randomized to the intervention group received a library of 21 immersive virtual reality experiences?—?including

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InstaVR

JANUARY 3, 2019

VR use will expand within organizations 2017 was the year for “early adopters” in VR. We’d just seen the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive get wide releases, and Gear VR was seeing strong usage thanks in part to Samsung bundling the headset with new phones. Putting on a VR headset was no longer a novelty.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

I had a chance to walk the showroom floor of VRLA 2017 with Root where he took me on a guided tour through the history of VRLA, his thoughts on AR, using VR for film production, the future of privacy in AR/VR, as well as why he is interested in seeing where eSports in VR is headed. VRLA is happening this year on May 4th and 5th.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

One group in particular, LUMO Labs, is supporting the development of two specific projects with the potential to leave a lasting impression within the virtual reality industry for years to come. The first universe is being revealed on Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

.” Pixvana maintains that a preview version of their SPIN Player will be available soon, with the publisher close to follow in early 2017. As ‘platform agnostic’ player, we’re sure to see apps available for headsets such as Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, Google Daydream, and Oculus Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Actually, the first launch has happened in China with the Vive Focus at the end of 2017, but we had the full development of the ecosystem now. Samsung has also teased to be interested in releasing a new AR/VR standalone device. Samsung will do the same. Standalone headsets. 2018 has been the year of standalone headsets.

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Peter Graham

JULY 26, 2019

The app which once allowed PC users to see their monitor in VR has grown enormously, supporting HTC Vive, Valve Index, Windows Mixed Reality, Oculus Rift, Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, and Samsung GearVR. PlayStation VR support had previously been mentioned back in 2017 for release in 2018 yet that plan never came to fruition.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 28, 2017

Barra will be replacing Brendan Iribe who stepped down from the position last month to head the company’s PC VR group. Barra will be tasked with not only leading Oculus, Facebook’s subsidiary, but all of Facebook’s VR projects.

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Cats and VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

As women founders do you feel that VR has offered new opportunities for women and other underrepresented groups to find a place in tech? VR, AR and mixed reality are domains ripe for equal representation of women and other diversity groups. What resources and groups helped you to get to where the team is today? And how has it?

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Fixed issue with dynamic hubs and <dl8-hub-group> elements. Add new phone from late 2017 and early 2018 to the VR wizard. 1.3.11 (2017-11-29). 1.3.10 (2017-11-08). 2017-10-30). 2017-10-12). 2017-09-20). 2017-09-14). 2017-08-10). 2017-08-09). 2017-08-03).

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VRWorld

JUNE 23, 2016

Featuring 14nm FinFET design by GlobalFoundries or Samsung, with SK.Hynix HBM2 memory modules on multi-chip-module, i.e. MCM (TSMC calls this CoWoS), Vega 10 is looking to offer equal or higher performance than the high-end GP100. According to official sources at AMD, we should not expect to see Vega 10 GPU before first quarter of 2017.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

It’s a healthy week of new releases across both Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear, with a combination of free and premium experiences you shouldn’t pass up. 2017 VR, from Tungsten Game. Recommendation: If you’re bored of existing coop shooters, or want more zombies, then 2017 VR isn’t a bad bet. InMind 2 VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

More or less AR in 2018 has gone as I predicted in 2017. Samsung itself has stated that it is very interested in developing a future headset that is able to deliver both AR and VR. Jokes apart, what has happened in AR in 2018… and what can you expect to happen in 2019? Augmented Reality in 2018. Magic Leap.

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VRWorld

AUGUST 5, 2016

In a move that was perhaps the most important announcement of Siggraph, Radeon Technologies Group presented the Radeon Pro SSG card , perhaps the most innovative concept to have come out of the GPU world of in quite some time. For those needing ultimate performance, a combination of two 1TB Samsung 961 M.2 GB/s read and 3.8

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 18, 2017

It (2017) is the latest remake of Stephen King’s world famous horror story. More than anything, however, was the terror waiting for you around every corner while you virtually float with the infamous red balloons…IT opened in theaters on September 8, 2017. 2017 Emmy Winner! If you haven't seen these yet, now is your chance!

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Follow this event on social media: Silicon Valley VR Expo (SVVR) Date: March 29-31, 2017 Venue: San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA, USA Follow this event on social media: Or visit SVVR's update feed. FIVARS is a presentation of VRTO – Toronto’s virtual reality meetup group and think tank.

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JUNE 7, 2017

Having an HDR mode would be useful as well, after all – we live in 2017. To check on our experience, and experience of other consumers, take a look or join the Facebook group. Xiaomi is getting closer to the west and their South Korean neighbors from Samsung and LG, but they’re still lacking that magic finish touch.

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VeeR VR

APRIL 10, 2018

Alan's business has worked with companies like Samsung, HBO, Techweek, Microsoft, Comcast, and many more. Cathy Hackl was selected as a 2017 Oculus Launch Pad Fellow, a program designed to support promising VR content creators and help them bring their unique ideas to market. Sabarish Gnanamoorthy. Cathy Hackl. Nonny De La Peña.

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VRWorld

JULY 20, 2016

In 2017, the cross-licensing agreement between Nvidia and Intel will expire. More recently, AMD spun off its engineering teams under the Radeon Technologies Group, which is lead by Raja Koduri. That disclosure was a part of big blow out between RTG and HardOCP , or to be more precise – between Raja Koduri and Kyle Bennett.

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VRGuy

MARCH 27, 2017

A 2017 game would likely work with 2018 or 2019 hardware. In January, the Khronos group (known for OpenGL standards) launched a new VR initiative. Industry leaders including Google, Oculus, Valve, Sensics and Samsung are part of this effort. I may have a Dell computer but I don't always want a Dell printer to go with it.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Having launched its first VR headset in late 2017, alongside a handful of similar headsets as part of Microsoft’s Windows Mixed Reality platform, HP is preparing to take its next step with the launch of a new headset that diverges from the pack. The first I recognize: Samsung’s recently launched Odyssey+.

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ARPost

JULY 30, 2020

billion by 2023 , growing at a CAGR of 9.98% from 2017 to 2023. The device can provide simultaneous two-way translation in multiple languages and offer several modes—face-to-face translation, group translation, and broadcast translation. The spread of AR-featured hearables and their opportunities are extending.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Projects must be viewable via Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, or Google Cardboard. BIFF introduced a VR/360 film component named Virtual Reality Pavilion at the 2017 Festival, to present to attendees and the Boulder community with a new kind of storytelling experience. In addition to the over 130 World or U.S.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 20, 2016

It is clear that the current pace of graphics development left Intel way behind not just AMD or NVIDIA, but mobile SoC providers such as Qualcomm, MediaTek, HiSilicon, Samsung and others. Sadly, no 3rd party IP will come inside Intel’s silicon before we see off Kaby Lake (2017) and Cannon Lake (2018).

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Samsung starts off the month debuting its VR Internet browser for Gear VR, becoming the first to offer a VR browser. Zuckerberg makes the declaration as Samsung announces the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge smartphones will ship for a limited time with the Gear VR for free, along with $50 worth of some of the best games available for the platform.

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